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Velma can't math. (mander.xyz)
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[-] hayvan@feddit.nl 34 points 2 days ago

When stupid people try to make a show about smart people.

[-] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 days ago

i enjoyed the Velma tv show immensely, its okay if you didn't, but people got really carried away with just how much they hate ~~women~~ the show, it's a cartoon, enjoy it or dont, don't act like Rome is burning before your eyes

good jokes, inclusive characters, queer people that don't die in the first episode, fun subversion of expectations, meta humour about tropes, a fun mystery, cancelled too soon, but there's still 30something episodes

it made me reasses how I felt about Mindy Kaling's work as a whole, turns out I had been caught up in the misogynistic whirlwind in the past, I've really enjoyed her older stuff upon revisiting it since seeing Velma

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 1 day ago

I really enjoyed Velma. I didn't really care, but wanted to show it to my terminally offline wife to see her honest reaction and she loved it from the first scene and we continued watching it.

[-] drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

I was a stupid ass teenager when it came out and people online convinced me it was the worst shit to ever grace any screen ever. Maybe I missed out.

[-] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 232 points 2 days ago

FWIW I heard the show was extremely bad, and I had to see for myself.

It is very, very bad.

[-] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 191 points 2 days ago
[-] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago

The second season's arc is about uncovering what SCOOBY was within the show, and there were lots of goofy references to how silly the old cartoons were, and how silly cartoons are in general

i enjoyed the Velma tv show immensely

[-] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

That is legitimately the first time I've heard someone say something nice about the show.

[-] missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 days ago

it was designed as ragebait. but it failed even at that.

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[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

FWIW I heard the show was extremely bad, and I had to see for myself.

It was okay, better than the shitty Netflix adult animations. The worst part of it was the Velma character, if they got rid of or changed her it would be better.

they got rid of scooby doo

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[-] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago

Coming from someone that memorized it in high school and hasn't used it since, I am enraged.

[-] synapse1278@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago

It's a formula very useful for a tone of engineering fields, electronic, mechanics, automatic control and probably a bunch more. I used it a tone in my early carrier, including the imaginary flavor.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 points 2 days ago

Yeah if your field uses anything beyond basic math this bitch is hiding somewhere

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[-] Mpatch@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

When I started Chem engineering in college, it blew me away that like 80% of lab math and analisis was just using the linear equation everyone bitched and moaned about how useless it was in high-school.

[-] drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

The fucking what flavor.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Tonne not tone < tonne is the measurement/a lot, whilst tone is sound

Flavour not flavor, you don’t want people thinking you’re a gross American.

[-] BodePlotHole@lemmy.world 74 points 2 days ago

A negative boy was unsure about a radical party.

The boy was a square, so he missed out on four awesome chicks.

And the whole thing was over by 2am...

[-] guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip 27 points 2 days ago

This is beautiful, as a mathematics major it brought me to tears. I’ll be reading this at my wedding

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[-] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I feel for Velma. I am so bad at math that sometimes I go into a corner by myself so I can hide what I'm working on from my coworkers while I scribble down very complex maladaptive strategies I've learned to solve simple calculations.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

I have textbook dyscalculia. I am a geospatial wizard, but I cannot remember my pin or calculate a tip.

[-] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I feel like a number of the concepts in this infographic are loosely (if at all) defined. As in - they don't represent established concepts in education and they could have been made by a single party talking out their ass. Or maybe I just have dyscalculia.

[-] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I was making grits the other day. The can had instructions for 1 serving, and 4 servings. I didn't want 1 or 4, I wanted 2. So, I wrote a quick interpolation program on my Casio. Once I ran it, I realized 2 is just double of 1.

[-] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 days ago

Such an strange error. I'm not saying it's AI but here's my prompt:

Generate a picture of someone thinking and, to symbolize their thought process, show math symbols and equations around their head, these symbols have to include the quadratic formula

Here's the pic:

1761354151808

[-] m0stlyharmless@lemmy.zip 28 points 2 days ago

I suspect it’s an OCR error.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I'm guessing a typesetter was too lazy to add another textbox and although they knew how to type "√", didn't realize "²" is in Unicode too. They added a horizontal line as separate graphics to extend the square root symbol but only realized too late the whole thing is in a fraction: maybe someone reminded them and they misinterpreted the advice, or just decided not to split the text box to put the nominator higher.

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[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago

I stared at the square of the square root of the squared square root for far too long...

that I almost missed the obvious E = / * A. Where would the field of mathematics be without that good old E = / * A? :-D

[-] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago
[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

It just gets better and better-er(-est?/-ish?)

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[-] ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Why so... Negative? /s

[-] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago

Did they use AI to generate that?

[-] josephc@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

My guess is they lost the typesetting in a copy/paste. If you copy superscript or the unusual +/- character into an animation tool that doesn't have the font or doesn't recognize the typesetting it will drop the character or convert it to the nearest ASCII. If you've ever copied and pasted something into an email and had the formatting mangled, that's like what happened here.

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[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

didn't get an animation job for the math skills

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Yeah. Those guys all work on Futurama.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

... Why not just copy the meme they're referencing? It's like they're intentionally trying to screw this up.

[-] individual@toast.ooo 7 points 2 days ago

why is she even thinking about this?

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

She’s in high school in the show.

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